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In dieser Ausgabe

We’re still standing Tom Howells explores the mystery and magnetism of the thousands of ancient British monoliths and monuments, from Cornwall to the Orkneys

The virtues of history John Goodall celebrates 100 years of the headquarters of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, one of London’s Great
Twelve City Livery Companies

The legacy Leslie Hore-Belisha created a beacon of hope for road users everywhere, finds Kate Green

The virtues of history

One of the Great Twelve City Livery Companies is celebrating the centenary of its Tudor-style Hall. John Goodall looks at the remarkable story of the building.

8 mins

The legacy Leslie Hore-Belisha and road safety

LESLIE HORE-BELISHA (1893–1957) will forever be remembered for instigating the ubiquitous Belisha beacon to mark a pedestrian road crossing, but his contribution as Minister for Transport in the 1930s was far greater than that. He took office in 1934, a time when members of the public were taking to the wheel in their kamikaze droves, often with more enthusiasm than skill.

1 mins

We're still standing

With their potent blend of wild looks and mystery, Britain's ancient sites have an enduring magnetism–and there are far more of them than you might imagine, says Tom Howells

6 mins

Going down in a blazer of glory

Everyone from royalty to rappers seems to have one in their wardrobe. Is this the world's most versatile jacket? Harry Pearson praises the blazer, a true sartorial team player

4 mins

Earthly pleasures

Used in the construction of Florence's Duomo and favoured by 19th-century architects and designers, Impruneta clay is as solid as rock, finds Arabella Youens

2 mins

A bite of the cherry

Three blooming properties in Kent showcase the original garden of England

5 mins

Thwack!

Power up your serve in time for Wimbledon at these properties with tennis courts

2 mins

Secret society

Once a quiet fishing village west of Lisbon, Cascais became an unlikely hive of activity during the Second World War, attracting regal refugees and intelligence operatives in equal measure. Russell Higham investigates its enduring glamour-and its connection to Casino Royale

5 mins

Keep the Faith

The age of chivalry isn't dead—the Knights Hospitaller has defended its faith and helped the sick and the poor for more than 1,000 years, discovers Holly Kirkwood

5 mins

Where Venice once ruled

Rich, resourceful and ruthless, the Venetians left handsome imprints across the Greek world, says Matthew Dennison, as he explores the lingering traces of a vanished empire

5 mins

De la panza sale la danza

In the land of jamón, tapas, gazpacho and flamenco, Spanish cuisine—studded with its superlative seafood—fuels the furnace within, declares Tom Parker Bowles

4 mins

A meeting of minds

The marriage of John Stuart and Harriet Taylor Mill produced some of the 19th-century's most influential ideas. They continue to resonate today, finds Eileen Reid

3 mins

Strip the willow

SOME mornings I sit and marvel at the genius of William Morris. Our downstairs lavatory is screened from prying eyes by a panel of leaded lights made from hand-cast and painted Morris & Co glass in about 1887. Sunlight treacles through the bubbles and the painted willow wands. Willows are to us what olive trees are to southern Europeans, I would suggest, from time immemorial our most prolific and most useful crop. The osier beds must have been Morris's muse, living at Kelmscott in the west Oxfordshire flatlands on the upper reaches of the Thames: withy beds characterised the Thames valley for the manufacture of all things packaging. Before he designed Willow Bough, his most celebrated wallpaper, Morris mused in poetry of 'the happy willow tree, with the river by it sighing'.

2 mins

Laying ghosts to rest

Fifteen abandoned locks were part of the draw for the owners of this astonishing garden, created in the grounds of the former headquarters of the Somersetshire Coal Canal Company, discovers Caroline Donald

4 mins

The return of the king

Threatened with extinction in the 1960s, the mighty peregrine—with its astonishing speed and super strength—has staged such a remarkable comeback that its now more successful than it was in the Middle Ages

3 mins

Water, water everywhere

With high summer beckoning, John Lewis- Stempel reflects on the incomparable richness of pond life and the rewards of pausing to peer into the murky depths on a warm June afternoon

4 mins

The King and I

A gruelling schedule, kamikaze flies and even a flying easel are all par for the course for four-time Royal Tour artist Warwick Fuller and he wouldn't have it any other way

8 mins

Make an impression

Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro spent time in London, but it took James McNeill Whistler to act as artistic bridge with Britain and the 'sweetened' Impressionism of Jules Bastien-Lepage to inspire most homegrown painters

5 mins

Where the wild things are

William Blake, Samuel Palmer and Beatrix Potter all inspired Maurice Sendak, as demonstrated by a sale of his own drawings and those he collected.

2 mins

Cod almighty

A cold-water nomad with a voracious appetite, the overfished cod may be dwindling in numbers, but it is still a big beast of the sea

3 mins

Fast living

TO visit some houses in the Devon boondocks in the 1970s was to be in Ireland with 70% of the rain and more cider. Hidden in deep folds in the landscape were families who seemed to share many of the bucolic eccentricities of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, unconcerned by tumbling masonry or leaking roofs. It was there that I enjoyed some of the most carefree times of my youth with Robin Grant-Sturgis, one of life's great characters and a man who has prematurely joined the Turf Club after living his allotted span to the maximum on Southern Comfort and untipped Senior Service. He did a 'proper job', as they say in those parts.

2 mins

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Country Life UK Description:

Herausgeber: Future

Kategorie: Lifestyle

Sprache: English

Frequenz: Weekly

Country Life; architecture, gardens, countryside, property, the very best of British life Published by IPC Media. Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.